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A pixelated anime-style character with long dark hair and a yellow top, holding a brown object, with vertical yellow text on the left side.

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A pixelated anime-style character with long dark hair and a yellow top, holding a brown object, with vertical yellow text on the left side.

A pixelated anime-style character with long dark hair and a yellow top, holding a brown object, with vertical yellow text on the left side. Animated 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • static

Animation Summary

  • The image is static with no visible motion changes.

Composition

  • character positioned slightly right of center
  • vertical text on left

Dense Caption

The image shows a pixelated anime-style character with long dark hair and a yellow top, holding a brown object. The character is positioned slightly to the right of the center. On the left side of the image, there is vertical yellow text. The background is a gradient of light gray and white. The image has a low-resolution, pixelated appearance typical of early 2000s digital art. The character's expression is neutral. The image is part of a grid layout with other similar images, but the focus is on this specific character.

Description

  • A pixelated anime-style character with long dark hair and a yellow top, holding a brown object, with vertical yellow text on the left side.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200907181204311341191121

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • anime character yellow top
  • pixelated buddy icon
  • vertical yellow text
  • brown object held
  • neutral expression anime
  • buddy icon
  • yellow text anime
  • buddy icon anime style

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears to be part of a grid layout with multiple similar images
  • quarantined wordwall: grid layout
  • quarantined retrieval: grid layout buddy icon

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Visible Text

  • A
  • B
  • C
  • D
  • E
  • F
  • G
  • H
  • I
  • J
  • K
  • L

Wordwall

  • anime-style character
  • long dark hair
  • yellow top
  • brown object
  • vertical yellow text
  • light gray background
  • pixelated
  • neutral expression

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200907181204311341191121
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:00 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
2.4 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/5f/5f06a95ec239ff307809a24513e846218a84be113d5e946c52b09a893f7dd524.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 16:00 UTC
Archive ID
5f06a95ec239ff30
SHA-256
5f06a95ec239ff307809a24513e846218a84be113d5e946c52b09a893f7dd524
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:37 UTC
Run
1039
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.080818

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.919182onnx/unsafe0.080818onnx/nsfl0.045217onnx/nsfw0.035600
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A pixelated anime-style character with long dark hair and a yellow top, holding a brown object, with vertical yellow text on the left side.

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 14:49 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
10,733 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,115, response 882

Review tags

  • dark brown (color, 0.80)
  • light gray (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • brown object (object, 0.80)
  • static (other, 0.80)
  • anime style (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • anime style character (subject, 0.80)

Animation

  • static

Animation Summary

  • The image is static with no visible motion changes.

Colors

  • yellow
  • dark brown
  • light gray
  • white

Composition

  • character positioned slightly right of center
  • vertical text on left

Dense Caption

The image shows a pixelated anime-style character with long dark hair and a yellow top, holding a brown object. The character is positioned slightly to the right of the center. On the left side of the image, there is vertical yellow text. The background is a gradient of light gray and white. The image has a low-resolution, pixelated appearance typical of early 2000s digital art. The character's expression is neutral. The image is part of a grid layout with other similar images, but the focus is on this specific character.

Description

  • A pixelated anime-style character with long dark hair and a yellow top, holding a brown object, with vertical yellow text on the left side.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200907181204311341191121

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • anime character yellow top
  • pixelated buddy icon
  • vertical yellow text
  • brown object held
  • neutral expression anime
  • buddy icon
  • yellow text anime
  • buddy icon anime style

Objects

  • brown object

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears to be part of a grid layout with multiple similar images
  • quarantined wordwall: grid layout
  • quarantined retrieval: grid layout buddy icon

Source Metadata Interpretation

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  • provenance era: 2016
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  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Style

  • pixelated
  • anime-style

Subjects

  • anime-style character

Visible Text

  • A
  • B
  • C
  • D
  • E
  • F
  • G
  • H
  • I
  • J
  • K
  • L

Wordwall

  • anime-style character
  • long dark hair
  • yellow top
  • brown object
  • vertical yellow text
  • light gray background
  • pixelated
  • neutral expression
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Full source records (1)

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016) (internet-archive-franksicons-shared-2007-2016)

Kind
local-directory
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Type
Internet Archive tar preservation of the FranksIcons shared buddy-icon store
Title
200907181204311341191121
Archive entry
200907181204311341191121.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:00 UTC
Rights
mixed anonymous, fan, commercial, and copyrighted imagery; research/reference only by default
Slice
large cross-sectional user-shared AIM buddy-icon collection spanning personal identity, fandom, music, humor, relationships, moods, holidays, and internet culture

Original: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200907181204311341191121.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200907181204311341191121.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016